It’s not secret that I take the GO-train twice a day from the lovely confines of the burbs into the city on a wirlwind of 40 min on the express train. One of my favorite things to do on the train after playing videogames or sleeping is to people watch or better yet people listen. Nothing covers up eavesdropping like playing bejeweled on your treo.
Today the people in the same pod as me were talking about a website, naturallly my interests perked. They talked about galleries they recently updated and comments they posted… myspace I thought, but then I began to second guess myself. Could they be on facebook? virb? some new nice site people in the shwa were all hot onto. After a few minutes of them discussing I figured out that it was indeed facebook they were talking about (phew my games still legit) it was the new addition of these free gifts facebook was offering that set it off for me. I asked the people if they were indeed talking about facebook. How just recently they came to discover it and how I had a similar experience with many of my olld friends finding out about facebook and me either finding them or them finding me.
We also talked shortly about how kids social behaviors are changing, how kids would soooner MSN or facebook their friends than pick up the phone. Hell they would rather chat onine than walk a block to actually hang out with their friends. I know that when I was younger that the internet served as a tool to get stuff done, sure I socialized over ICQ and ran my own KDX server but those were quite basic back in the day and I still spent most of my time interacting with people on a more human level, the phone or in the flesh.
While I dont discredit my love for the internet and technology having a kid to raise in such a technologically advanced time is going to prove to be a small challenge, while I want my kid to grow up knowing how stuff works and how to conduct yourself online in the safest of manners I cant help but want to teach my kid the joys of interacting outside of the 1′s and 0′s and get some human on human time.
the commute + lurking
It’s not secret that I take the GO-train twice a day from the lovely confines of the burbs into the city on a wirlwind of 40 min on the express train. One of my favorite things to do on the train after playing videogames or sleeping is to people watch or better yet people listen. Nothing covers up eavesdropping like playing bejeweled on your treo.
Today the people in the same pod as me were talking about a website, naturallly my interests perked. They talked about galleries they recently updated and comments they posted… myspace I thought, but then I began to second guess myself. Could they be on facebook? virb? some new nice site people in the shwa were all hot onto. After a few minutes of them discussing I figured out that it was indeed facebook they were talking about (phew my games still legit) it was the new addition of these free gifts facebook was offering that set it off for me. I asked the people if they were indeed talking about facebook. How just recently they came to discover it and how I had a similar experience with many of my olld friends finding out about facebook and me either finding them or them finding me.
We also talked shortly about how kids social behaviors are changing, how kids would soooner MSN or facebook their friends than pick up the phone. Hell they would rather chat onine than walk a block to actually hang out with their friends. I know that when I was younger that the internet served as a tool to get stuff done, sure I socialized over ICQ and ran my own KDX server but those were quite basic back in the day and I still spent most of my time interacting with people on a more human level, the phone or in the flesh.
While I dont discredit my love for the internet and technology having a kid to raise in such a technologically advanced time is going to prove to be a small challenge, while I want my kid to grow up knowing how stuff works and how to conduct yourself online in the safest of manners I cant help but want to teach my kid the joys of interacting outside of the 1′s and 0′s and get some human on human time.
it sure is going to be fun